Profiteer Host. "I'm afraid we'll have to drink the fizz out of port glasses."
Profiteer Guest. "Oh, we don't mind roughin' it; we're all sportsmen, I take it."
Relatives without Antecedents
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"Youthful Hostesses.—A few years ago when a bachelor entertained he invited his aunt or his mother to act as hostess for him. Now he asks his grand-daughter."—Daily Paper.
"Ostensibly £it was a move to check the ever-rising cost of living, £and in a way not fully realised by the public £it was a method of riveting control on the industry."